Book Reviews

Surprised by Paradox

Jonathan Edwards, the great American theologian, believed in paradox. He believed that in God we see many traits that don’t seem to belong together: infinite greatness and infinite care, infinite justice and

The Reformed Pastor

The Reformed Pastor is not really the name of this book by Richard Baxter. The original name was a little longer: Gildas Salvianus: “The Reformed Pastor, showing the nature of the Pastoral work;

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and author of The One-Straw Revolution. As a young man he studied agriculture and worked as an inspector studying diseases and pests on imported plants. He was

The Gospel-Driven Church

When I say I like Jared Wilson’s new book The Gospel-Driven Church, I mean it. It’s a book written for the kind of pastor I used to be. Some ten years

Digital Minimalism

As I write this, I’m about to take off on a flight from Toronto to Orlando. That means — gasp — three hours without being connected to the Internet. There’s an out. For